| Wells Fargo
Refused Deposit From Haitian-Born Man Who
Sues Wells For Banking While Black
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Feb 7 – Ernst Valery sued
Wells Fargo for
discrimination, or "banking
while
black."
On
February 7, U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York Judge J.
Paul Oetken held a proceeding.
Inner City Press covered
it.
Valery,
born in Haiti, was depositing
a check for tax credit project
but Wells Fargo refused to
take it, instead "barraging
him, in front of his wife,
with a battery of
interrogatives questioning his
entitlement to the
funds."
The SDNY
action was stayed pending a
motion in the Ninth Circuit.
Now the stay is off, and
papers are due in four, then
three, then two weeks.
The case is
Valery v. Wells Fargo &
Company et al., 21-cv-5464
(Oetken)
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